copy/fax machine security threats
Jun 3rd 2010, 10:02 am
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copy/fax machine security threats
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Jun 3rd 2010, 10:16 am
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Re: copy/fax machine security threats
Jun 3rd 2010, 10:42 am
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Re: copy/fax machine security threats
yes 
Jun 3rd 2010, 3:49 pm
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Re: copy/fax machine security threats
Could be some interesting pics on them too. 
Jun 6th 2010, 8:36 am
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Re: copy/fax machine security threats
OK, so that's something I hadn't thought of. There's also a lot of images of people's backsides, I dare say......
My attitude to all that is that when getting rid of items that contain such storage, burn them, smash them and make damn sure that the data storage unit has been fried to a crisp.
My attitude to all that is that when getting rid of items that contain such storage, burn them, smash them and make damn sure that the data storage unit has been fried to a crisp.
Jun 6th 2010, 6:14 pm
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Re: copy/fax machine security threats
With most "e-waste" heading to Africa or Asia at the end of its life via "pretend" recyclers, there is a massive data security exposure. It's not just your own equipment that's the problem, what about that photocopy someone made at the tax office of your paperwork - still sitting on their copier hard drive and do they manage their data security properly?
This page has some interesting links to other data-loss stories http://us.simsrecycling.com/key-issu...data-disasters
Jun 7th 2010, 8:48 am
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Re: copy/fax machine security threats
Ooohh, me, me please me, I know!!!
Given the vast amount of significant data (medical, financial, and so on) that seems to be sprinkled about like confetti at a hurricane's wedding by allegedly responsible agencies, I'd have to say the answer is NO.
It's kind of reassuring. We manage our data very responsibly, shredding and composting every scrap of paper that so much as has an address on it, never mind account details. I have worried a bit that one of the discs that the government etc lose on a regular basis, or the banks toss onto the waste heap without shredding might be containing my data.
Then again I think that since there are so many millions of people compromised by this, there is security in numbers, and the ripoff merchants will be a long time before they get around to my account.
Given the vast amount of significant data (medical, financial, and so on) that seems to be sprinkled about like confetti at a hurricane's wedding by allegedly responsible agencies, I'd have to say the answer is NO.
It's kind of reassuring. We manage our data very responsibly, shredding and composting every scrap of paper that so much as has an address on it, never mind account details. I have worried a bit that one of the discs that the government etc lose on a regular basis, or the banks toss onto the waste heap without shredding might be containing my data.
Then again I think that since there are so many millions of people compromised by this, there is security in numbers, and the ripoff merchants will be a long time before they get around to my account.
Jun 12th 2010, 8:11 am
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Re: copy/fax machine security threats
Ooohh, me, me please me, I know!!!
Given the vast amount of significant data (medical, financial, and so on) that seems to be sprinkled about like confetti at a hurricane's wedding by allegedly responsible agencies, I'd have to say the answer is NO.
It's kind of reassuring. We manage our data very responsibly, shredding and composting every scrap of paper that so much as has an address on it, never mind account details. I have worried a bit that one of the discs that the government etc lose on a regular basis, or the banks toss onto the waste heap without shredding might be containing my data.
Then again I think that since there are so many millions of people compromised by this, there is security in numbers, and the ripoff merchants will be a long time before they get around to my account.
Given the vast amount of significant data (medical, financial, and so on) that seems to be sprinkled about like confetti at a hurricane's wedding by allegedly responsible agencies, I'd have to say the answer is NO.
It's kind of reassuring. We manage our data very responsibly, shredding and composting every scrap of paper that so much as has an address on it, never mind account details. I have worried a bit that one of the discs that the government etc lose on a regular basis, or the banks toss onto the waste heap without shredding might be containing my data.
Then again I think that since there are so many millions of people compromised by this, there is security in numbers, and the ripoff merchants will be a long time before they get around to my account.
Or yours just could be top of the pile...
Jun 14th 2010, 12:10 pm
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Jun 14th 2010, 3:44 pm
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Re: copy/fax machine security threats
I forget what the precise numbers are, but at the end of the day, you are very unlikely to be in the first and last 15%, and much more to be in the middle 70%. So, even in the event of a cut, I'm pretty well protected by the sheer weight of numbers, plus if someone does hack into my overdraft, he's more than welcome to it.
